depressing but very beautiful look at black love in the face of racism and mass incarceration.
I think only Baldwin could pull off this story with so depressing but very beautiful look at black love in the face of racism and mass incarceration.
I think only Baldwin could pull off this story with so much nuance given to how race and heteropatriachy work , and even so it was tough for me. I think he doesn’t shy from vulgar language, and while it was tough to read franks character spew straight up misogynistic nonsense or even fonny regurgitate this stubborn ideology (even though he thinks he’s different) I know that this is honest. I guess it’s sobering to face this language head on while also thinking ab this context of violence against black men under the same ideology that all men use to enact violence against women. masters tools…
saving the rest for book club I guess but ultimately, while this wasn’t my fav Baldwin book it’s a pretty damn good one...more
this is a reread from 2021, originally an blog post / stream of consciousness by adrienne maree brown amended and extended into a collection of essaysthis is a reread from 2021, originally an blog post / stream of consciousness by adrienne maree brown amended and extended into a collection of essays regarding “call-outs” and online calls for “accountability” that end up replicating punitive behavior.
adrienne invites us to pause our familiar inclinations of haste, and invite discernment, grace, understanding and into how we treat interpersonal conflict and correction in social movements
short reading but packed with helpful tools for deep internal analysis
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